Missing the Kissinger introduction.

I always think Ray had such an old skool type cue action. Very reminiscent of the likes of Joe or Fred Davis. Technically superb, but very much a throwback

I cannot imagine how things would have turned out had the Germans actually defeated Russia. With all those resources at their disposal they would have been even harder to defeat.

This is an amazing series! The music at the beginning and the end gives me goosebumps.

“A schizophrenic country of blatant contradictions.” Ha! The best summary I’ve heard yet. In full control of almost every aspect of the public’s lives, the GDRs communist leaders were unwilling to the end to realize that their 45 year dictatorship was over. I’m just grateful nobody was killed as that Soviet vassal state took its last breaths before reunification. Everything there changed for the better after honest elections in the GDR occurred in 1990, as they would have at any point during its entire existence. That’s the true crime of the that regime, it intentionally kept people from bettering their own lives.

The Stasi was bluntly honest in their motto: The shield and sword of the party. Their loyalty wasn’t to the East German people, it was only to the party bigwigs. Listening to people laud that open-air prison camp today is the height of stupidity.

Эта лекция была выложена еще в те времена,когда я о политике даже не задумывался в силу возраста. Мне тогда было полных 12 лет,при том что на момент написание этого коммента мне 24, считай полжизни назад. В бытовом плане что помню, уже полтора года как проведен в хату интернет, но телефоном мобильным пользуюсь только кнопочным,и буду пользоваться вплоть до середины 2013 года,сенсорные только начали появляться,а плазменные ТВ еще не заменили трубчатые и у меня дома замена произойдет в том же 2013 году.

Лекция вышла в 2013 году,за полтора года до падения цен на нефть.

DDR a Soviet colony

Thank you for this. I have also enjoyed reading many of the comments below, debating the different styles of gov't. in our past. As an old woman, I have finally come to a few conclusions. Every form of gov't seems to have some good/great ideas behind them for its people...some more than others. However, with the passage of time, it appears greed & the need to hang onto & grow in power eventually ends each system in disaster. Man can be inspired to believe he will finally figure out that one, true form of gov't that will finally work for the world, but the problems mentioned above will continue to thwart him. History does repeat itself, tho, so there is always hope for change for the better...at least for a time. Perhaps we will reincarnate as someone from the opposite side of the world with opposing views & experiences of our own...seems only fair to me.

Stalin's mother wanted him to be a priest. I can't see that somehow

I don't understand why a signed confession was needed when they were going to enslave their own people anyway

Great video! 👌 Are there any more?

Does anyone know the name of the piece of music that the man is playing on the accordion at 41:00?

It was the DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

RIP Legend, this video is very good.

Stalin was always trying to deflect his misjudgements and blunders at all his minions....the Winter War in Finland, his pact with Hitler, overriding his generals, uprooting whole peoples , saying the Germans were guilty of the Katyn massacre....the list is endless.

17:27 Well 17:35 That seems easy. It went off so big and loud because of the amount of water it had access to.

I never saw any blood on the snow, myself, but im definitely sure there was plenty

Now THAT'S a border wall!

History repeating itself .. over and over

Socialists can't survive without capitalism... but capitalism can survive without Socialists

Churchill, referring to Stalin as "uncle Joe ", seems absurd in light of his 5 year seniority in age to the Russian tyrant

Great series. Thanks a lot!.

Micah’s daddy was killed by Armageddon

Micah’s daddy is a slave to the Reich

I don't remember how the krakatoa blew up. I remember the mount st Helen's blew and killed 57 people and injured people

I don’t think there has been another country in history where people had so little to smile about as in Russia between 1914 and 1953.

These "Godfathers" sure have interesting backgrounds.

I agree with the others here, one of the best Doc's about this campaign. Very well done. Thanks for sharing.

My God, he sounds exactly like a hypnotist! Wild

Imagine Alex Higgins taking this class. He’d be pissed, End up having a scrap with Mike and would have insulted Jill.

hgft

Ty great stuff

Hell on earth.

Thrown into the abyss by heartless tyrants at Stalingrad?

What happened to coaching with reardon used to be on KZbin but is sadly unavailable.

Those who long for the GDR can always visit their failed creations in Africa. Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique

A different insight, a fair bit of propaganda and fiction mixed in with facts

The End is near for Putin the Interpol War Criminal and his Russian Mafia

This series lacks lot of valuable information: When were the takes filmed? From what source is it taken?

The Germans weren’t human every single tale of genocide reminds me of that. Words cannot express the inhumanity.

Wow, this series is so interesting. It’s a history I know nothing about.

Short necks jews

If i own Russian oil which is equivalent to 20% of world oil. I would easily control Russia. That will be very bad news for the Russians

My favorite war series

A brilliant series and an incomparable narrator in Nigel Hawthorne. The music is particularly appropos, immensly evocative, and moving.

Yes, they do make loyal friends and, in my view, fierce enemies.

10 years later "Putin can not be appeased, he can only be resisted."